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Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)

Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London : Groombridge · leaf 91

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acruciform chamber similar to that at New Grange, with apassage twenty-seven feet in length, composed—as was thechamber—of enormous stones. On some of the stoneswere carvings and Oghams. The mouth of the passageleading to the cruciform chamber is shown on fig. 46. Other excellent examples of Irish… … ..•All and arranged rectangularly, so as to form a distinct chamber ferred to Mr. W. F. Wakemans Handbook of Irish Antiquities,—thebest and most compact little work on the subject which has been issued,and one which will be found extremely useful to the archaeological stu-dent—to which I am…

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